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Steam’s “Big Picture” Mode May Reshape the Big Picture of What PC Gaming Really Means

Yesterday, Valve announced that their Big Picture service will be entering a beta phase soon. The Big Picture is a version of Steam optimized for television screens and controllers. Plug your PC into your 50″ TV, and you can kick back on the sofa with a version of Steam that’s designed to be readable from…

Nintendo Chief: Mario Is Part Of Gamers’ DNA

The line of games that started with Super Mario Bros and extends to this week’s New Super Mario Bros. 2 have an unusual, innate appeal, according to the president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata. “Sidescrolling Mario has a special existence in that it really is part of the fundamental DNA of gamers,” a cheerful Iwata said…

Watch The Fable: The Journey Team Tell A Story About Telling the Story, Then Play the Demo in September

The dev team at Lionhead Studios have shared a behind-the-scenes look at the story of their upcoming Kinect title Fable: The Journey. While early demonstrations of the game didn’t go very well, by this year’s E3 Kotaku‘s own Stephen Totilo found the demo to be a good experience If you want to try a demo…

Want Proof That Mobile Games are Catching Up to Consoles? Play Horn.

With The Dark Meadow, Phosphor Games Studio proved it could make a game that looked as good as a console title, but the sinister shooter’s limited on-rails gameplay was strictly mobile-grade. This week, in conjunction with Zynga, Phosphor released its latest Unreal Engine 3 powered mobile game, Horn, and it’s every bit as rich and…

One Film Critic Voted That Awful Hitman Movie as One of the Best of All Time. Seriously.

Every ten years, the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound magazine runs a poll that asks film critics and directors to vote for the films that they think are the examples of cinematic excellence. It’s a storied tradition that goes back 50 years and is highly regarded by filmmakers and journalists alike, with classics like…

Capcom’s Great-Looking Current-Gen Sci-Fi Game Will Set The Stage For Great-Looking Next-Gen Sci-Fi Games

By now you must have seen this great footage for Remember Me, an awesome-looking open-world game that Capcom showed off this week at Gamescom. Believe it or not, this great-looking game is for current-gen consoles: Capcom has it slated for May 2013 release on Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3. This is unusual. We should…

There’s a New Marvel Comics Game Coming to Phones

This is a teaser for a new mobile game starring, at the very least, Marvel’s The Avengers. I’d love to tell you more, but they call it a “teaser”, and not an “explains everything in 40 seconds”, for a reason.

Real Weapon Sellers Will Be So Jealous of These Borderlands 2 Videos

The same week EA pulls links to weapon and gear manufacturers from its Medal of Honor: Warfighter website, the arms crafters (ArmsCrafters – ready in about an hour) of Borderlands 2 get not one but three separate full-blown video ads. Some days it just doesn’t pay to be real. If I were to slip into…

Team Ninja wants to make another Metroid for Nintendo. You listening, Nintendo?

Counter-Strike: GO‘s First Mod Wants Braaaiiins!

When shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive launches next week, it will have a Zombie Mod from the folks over at plaguefest.com. “It was important to us as we developed CS:GO to make sure it was as moddable and extensible as any CS game,” wrote Valve on its Counter-Strike blog. “So this is just one of many…

The beta for Valve’s Big Picture service is “coming soon”

Cute Hoodie Turns You Into a Subtle Ryu From Street Fighter

The biggest problem most video game-inspired outfits run into is subtlety. Or, their lack of it. Something emblazoned with logos and character art might be fine for a LAN party or trade show, but on the street, it can often be a little much. So I like this hoodie. I wouldn’t buy it, but I…

The Pikachu 3DS XL Is Just Too Adorable

Squeal! Holy smoke, this Pikachu 3DS XL is too cute. Not only that, it’s hard to get. See, this Pikachu 3DS XL will only be sold at the Pokémon Center stores in Sapporo, Tohoku, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, and Fukuoka. The “Pokémon Center Original Nintendo 3DS XL Pikachu Yellow” is priced at ¥18,900 (US$239). The…

Gabe Newell Dodges Half-Life 3 Question with Shark Hate

This is shark week! All week, all the time, all sharks. There are even sharks in your Half-Life 3 answers. Aw, crap. Really? Yes, really During an interview with Valve’s Gabe Newell, Spike TV asked if there was anything he wanted to say about Half-Life 3. To which Newell responded, “I hate sharks.” That’s not…

The Counter Strike: Global Offensive Teaser Has You in Its Sights

Here’s a cinematic teaser for the upcoming Counter Strike: Global Offensive, flash bang and all. The upcoming team-based shooter is headed to PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on August 21.

Valve Is Making Documentaries Now

Here’s the documentary trailer for the upcoming DOTA documentary, which follows the players who are trying to go pro and compete in a million dollar tourney. It premiered tonight on GTTV and is “coming soon”.

GameStop Launching Streaming Game Service Next Year

GameStop will start competing direcly with streaming services like OnLive in 2013, when the retailer launches its own entrant in the growing field. The company purchased Spawn Labs’ streaming service last year, but while initially promising it would be able to beam games to “any Internet-enabled device”, it’s since dialled that back a little to…

Game Studio Sues Another Over The Word “Rebellion”

Stardock is now fighting a legal war on two fronts. Only a day after news of its case against a former employee emerged, the publisher is now being taken to court by Rebellion, the developers of games like Sniper Elite and the original (and awesome) Alien vs Predator. The issue? Stardock is the publisher of…

There Was a Ton of Stuff Cut From Fallout: New Vegas That You Can Play Right Now

When Obsidian took over from BioWare to develop Knights of the Old Republic II, the game was famously (and forcibly, by Lucasarts) shipped “incomplete”. Only when modders reinstated a bunch of cut content could we enjoy the full experience the developers had planned for the game. Much the same happened when the studio took over…

Now This Looks Like The Perfect Game of Thrones…Game

Like Kirk, I’m a fiend for the Game of Thrones board game. The treachery, the balance, it’s one of the best tabletop experiences I’ve ever had. Still, there’s always room for improvement! The pieces, for example, are a little bland. My crew has fixed that by purchasing a ton of the Battles of Westeros miniatures.…